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nearly $15 billion annually. And that, obviously,is
just a small measure of their potential influence.
Realizing the magnitude of the money behind newspapers it is easy to see why so many papers rushed
to endorse Nixon whose close ties with big business
are well known.
And there is no question that the newspaper business is big business. For the huge conglomerates,
the newspapers are merely money-makers, not organs
of public information. As long as they make money,
the corg lerne rates aie interested, but should they
start to fail, they're dropped. That's one reason
for the decrease in newspapers across the country.
Of course, what news these papers do print is
going to be effected by the interests of the owning corporation. For example, the board of directors
of the Times-Mirror chain — the seventh largest
group— is composed of sixteen people, most of whom
are executives of such enterprises as North American Rockwell, TFW Inc., Republic National Bank of
Dallas, Northrop, and law and security firms.
The connections between big money and the media and news management is frightening. But it has
become a matter of fact in the U.S. As the article
concludes, it has created a situation in which "the
first Amendment protection" of the "right to know
is subordinated to the right to make a financial
killing."
-30-
(Thanks to Robert Bishop for much of the information
in this story,)
4M.4. .. .. ...... «MMMfc .fcefc eMfc.fc_fc.t_k .. .. $fc .fc .. .fc
"IT WAS A VERY GOOD TURN OF EVENTS:"
MISTRIAL DECLARED IN PENTAGON PAPERS CASE
LOS ANGELES [LNS)--The Pentagon Papers trial of
Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo was officially
declared a mistrial December 11. "It was a very
good turn of events," said one legal defense worker commenting on the mistrial.
"We had a«very bad jury. Los Angeles is a
tough town for us since so many people are connected with the defense industry and we had a jury that
was close to a military tribunal."
The jury sat through a four month stay of the
trial arising out of the government's refusal to
reveal wiretaps, without hearing a word of testimony.
This long and unparalled lapse was the basis for
the mistrial. "They sat through the election period,"
said the legal worker. "The trial was definitely mentioned in campagning — both Agnew and Republican
Chairman Robert Dole mentioned it. So it was obviously a biased jury."
The defense hopes to get a less biased jury
this time around and has said it will challange the
jury selection process oifi several grounds.
One way will be tc demand that prospective
jurors be chosen from among those who registered
to vote as of October, 1972, because this group
would presumably have a good percentage of 18, 19,
and 20 year olds. The previous jury had only one
member under 40 and the defense feels that a jury
Page 18
with a broader age distribution would be more
sympathetic to the case.
Selecting jurors from the October, 1972
registration date would also serve another purpose. The defense maintains that the old pool
of prospective jurors was prejudiced against
Ellsberg and Russo by remarks ma'de by Chief
Judge Albert Lee Stephens Jr. before 200 of
the pool, when, in connection with another case,
the judge used the word "nonsense" in reference
to the Ellsberg case.
Jury selection for the new trial will begin
on December 13 as both Ellsberg and Russo waived,
their right to move for dismissal of the case on
double jeopardy grounds. They had previously
promised to do this if the jruy was dismissed.
Both defendents have indicated that they
feel so strongly about the issues of the Vietnam war, government secrecy andlying- and the
people's right to know, that they are willing to
risk conviction rather than seek dismissal of
the charges.
Asked if he thought the government might
eventually drop the case rather than reveal the
extent of its wire-tapping on individuals, a
spokesmen for the defense committee said,
"The Pentagon Papers case is very important
to the government and I doubt whether they'll
drop the case—They will just try to weasel out of
providing adequate wire-tapping submissions. It
is important for Nixon to make an example out
of Ellsberg and Russo and to justify his foreign
policy, in which secret negotations play a crucial
part."
-30-
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CONSCIENTIOUS" OBJECTORS REJECT
SCAB-OR-CHANGE-JOB EDICT
BOSTON (LNS)—Five war objectors who are doing
their alternative service at Massachusetts Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston and who presently are
on strike along with the hospital's other workers,
have refused a Selective Service order to either
scab or seek other jobs.
Meeting with two of the Conscientious Objectors
(CO.) Major William Griffiths, the state alternative service officer, told them that they "are not
doing what we call staisfactory service."
,0.s replied that
right to define
John Szymanski, one of the C
Selective Service "doesn't have a
this (being on strike) as unsatisfactory work."
Jeff Carty, the other C.O. said |he had been advised
by the ACLU that "we are in a good position legally.'
Elliot Small, area director of Hospital Workers Local 1199, which is conducting the strike,-
denounced the Selective Service threat as "using the
draft for punitive means in an attempt at busting
a legal strike."
-30-
Thanks to Win Magazine for this short.
* c* r* r* r* r* f* (■* r* r* r* r* c* r* (* r* r* r* r* f* r* r* r* r* (* (* r
LIBERATION News Service
(#487)
Dec. 13, 1972
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nearly $15 billion annually. And that, obviously,is
just a small measure of their potential influence.
Realizing the magnitude of the money behind newspapers it is easy to see why so many papers rushed
to endorse Nixon whose close ties with big business
are well known.
And there is no question that the newspaper business is big business. For the huge conglomerates,
the newspapers are merely money-makers, not organs
of public information. As long as they make money,
the corg lerne rates aie interested, but should they
start to fail, they're dropped. That's one reason
for the decrease in newspapers across the country.
Of course, what news these papers do print is
going to be effected by the interests of the owning corporation. For example, the board of directors
of the Times-Mirror chain — the seventh largest
group— is composed of sixteen people, most of whom
are executives of such enterprises as North American Rockwell, TFW Inc., Republic National Bank of
Dallas, Northrop, and law and security firms.
The connections between big money and the media and news management is frightening. But it has
become a matter of fact in the U.S. As the article
concludes, it has created a situation in which "the
first Amendment protection" of the "right to know
is subordinated to the right to make a financial
killing."
-30-
(Thanks to Robert Bishop for much of the information
in this story,)
4M.4. .. .. ...... «MMMfc .fcefc eMfc.fc_fc.t_k .. .. $fc .fc .. .fc
"IT WAS A VERY GOOD TURN OF EVENTS:"
MISTRIAL DECLARED IN PENTAGON PAPERS CASE
LOS ANGELES [LNS)--The Pentagon Papers trial of
Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo was officially
declared a mistrial December 11. "It was a very
good turn of events" said one legal defense worker commenting on the mistrial.
"We had a«very bad jury. Los Angeles is a
tough town for us since so many people are connected with the defense industry and we had a jury that
was close to a military tribunal."
The jury sat through a four month stay of the
trial arising out of the government's refusal to
reveal wiretaps, without hearing a word of testimony.
This long and unparalled lapse was the basis for
the mistrial. "They sat through the election period"
said the legal worker. "The trial was definitely mentioned in campagning — both Agnew and Republican
Chairman Robert Dole mentioned it. So it was obviously a biased jury."
The defense hopes to get a less biased jury
this time around and has said it will challange the
jury selection process oifi several grounds.
One way will be tc demand that prospective
jurors be chosen from among those who registered
to vote as of October, 1972, because this group
would presumably have a good percentage of 18, 19,
and 20 year olds. The previous jury had only one
member under 40 and the defense feels that a jury
Page 18
with a broader age distribution would be more
sympathetic to the case.
Selecting jurors from the October, 1972
registration date would also serve another purpose. The defense maintains that the old pool
of prospective jurors was prejudiced against
Ellsberg and Russo by remarks ma'de by Chief
Judge Albert Lee Stephens Jr. before 200 of
the pool, when, in connection with another case,
the judge used the word "nonsense" in reference
to the Ellsberg case.
Jury selection for the new trial will begin
on December 13 as both Ellsberg and Russo waived,
their right to move for dismissal of the case on
double jeopardy grounds. They had previously
promised to do this if the jruy was dismissed.
Both defendents have indicated that they
feel so strongly about the issues of the Vietnam war, government secrecy andlying- and the
people's right to know, that they are willing to
risk conviction rather than seek dismissal of
the charges.
Asked if he thought the government might
eventually drop the case rather than reveal the
extent of its wire-tapping on individuals, a
spokesmen for the defense committee said,
"The Pentagon Papers case is very important
to the government and I doubt whether they'll
drop the case—They will just try to weasel out of
providing adequate wire-tapping submissions. It
is important for Nixon to make an example out
of Ellsberg and Russo and to justify his foreign
policy, in which secret negotations play a crucial
part."
-30-
%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%**%*%*%*%*%**%
CONSCIENTIOUS" OBJECTORS REJECT
SCAB-OR-CHANGE-JOB EDICT
BOSTON (LNS)—Five war objectors who are doing
their alternative service at Massachusetts Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston and who presently are
on strike along with the hospital's other workers,
have refused a Selective Service order to either
scab or seek other jobs.
Meeting with two of the Conscientious Objectors
(CO.) Major William Griffiths, the state alternative service officer, told them that they "are not
doing what we call staisfactory service."
,0.s replied that
right to define
John Szymanski, one of the C
Selective Service "doesn't have a
this (being on strike) as unsatisfactory work."
Jeff Carty, the other C.O. said |he had been advised
by the ACLU that "we are in a good position legally.'
Elliot Small, area director of Hospital Workers Local 1199, which is conducting the strike,-
denounced the Selective Service threat as "using the
draft for punitive means in an attempt at busting
a legal strike."
-30-
Thanks to Win Magazine for this short.
* c* r* r* r* r* f* (■* r* r* r* r* c* r* (* r* r* r* r* f* r* r* r* r* (* (* r
LIBERATION News Service
(#487)
Dec. 13, 1972
the end of
text, graphics
next.